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Denis Papin

Denis Papin
Denis Papin, French physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking (d. 1712)

Denis Papin FRS was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

22 August 1647

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